March 5, 2015

Anybody Read Japanese?

I recently ordered what one might call a "tenkara magazine" from Japan that I can't read.
Let me repeat that, 162 pages...zero English.
I was curious to see how different it might be from an American fishing magazine (language aside).
It came in the mail yesterday...

Headwater Spring 2015

Try explaining that concept to your wife when she asks you what you ordered via registered mail...that she also had to go pick up at the post office...because the USPS wouldn't leave it at our door while I was at work.

At least the pictures are nice.

And there are some interesting gear diagrams that I can somewhat make out.

In some ways, it's kind of like getting a Playboy magazine.
Pages and pages of words that go totally unread.

Does that map count as a spot burn? :) Ha! That said, I've ordered various European cycling mags for the pictures and hope I could decipher something... so I get it. It looks like a pretty great magazine overall!Will